If you're planning a large picnic or BBQ with friends and family, this tartan picnic rug DIY from Paper and Pin is a must make! For last week's Knit in Public Day workshop, I made this fab DIY ...

At its best, the approach yields original treasure: a stained tartan picnic rug, the "veteran of many a moorland lunch or tea", leads to a discussion of how Exmoor was put on the tourist map.